Boquete is one of Chiriquí´s most famous districts, located up north of the province and west of Panama. With almost 20,000 residents, Boquete is popular amongst the tourist and expat communities mostly because of its template weather, a huge contrast to the rest of the country which enjoys the best in tropical climate.
With an extremely proud sense of heritage and some of the most impressive vistas in the country, the province of Chiriquí is widely regarded as a place with autonomy of its own… and for a while, that assumption might’ve been a reality. With its capital in David, the province of Chiriquí is divided into 13 districts: Alanje, Barú, Boquerón, Boquete, Bugaba, David, Dolega, Gualaca, Remedios, Renacimiento, San Félix, San Lorenzo, and Tolé. It’s located on the west side of the republic of Panama, limiting north with the province of Bocas del Toro and the Ngobe-Buglé native reserve, west with the republic of Costa Rica, east with the province of Veraguas and south with the Pacific Ocean.
You’re a tourist in a foreign country, have a couple hundred bucks in your pocket and you’re feeling lonely. What do you do? One of the benefits tourism services don’t tell you when planning your trip to Panama is that underneath the glossy sheen of blooming commerce, beautiful beaches and outstanding vacationing experiences lies a [...]
I’m not big on introductions, so I’ll get right down to it: here’s an honest-to-goodness list of 10 things you absolutely have to do while you’re in Panama. Did you know that Panama is in the top 10 of tourist destinations in the world and in the top 3 of places where people want to [...]